TFN is back up.

[alexr_rwx]

Tallahassee Free-Net rides again. \m/

Oh mans. There were a lot of evenings in middle school spent in front of the DOS machine running Telix, redialing and redialing. There was an IRC server (and kids writing increasingly annoying IRC scripts to kick people from channels ever more emphatically). There was Brett zip4096 figuring out how to make pine run arbitrary commands ("alternate editor" FTW!) so we could load up bash. There was that time Julian was pissed because I snagged files out of his home directory because he didn't know how to set permissions. The bizarre personalities. The middle-school crushes. The people that would mysteriously make their files world-writable. The online community that kept getting a different domain name.

And then they cut out, sometime within the past year or two.

But they're back up! In some form or another! Cool! "Services are still being brought online, and the full range of services to be offered are under discussion."

Comments

[falun.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I miss the old internet

Wow!!!

[zip4096.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness!! :D

Those were the days! Thank you so much for the reminder!! And the mention of the breaking-out-of-the-menu-system hack :D I'd forgotten about that feature of pine!!

One of the servers (fn3 maybe? Or fn5?) let us run chsh and login with bash thereafter, haha!

I loved those days, everything was new and strange.... I don't have that sense of wonder/amazement or curiosity about computers anymore. But discovering things was really exciting at the time.

I remember I wrote a TSR that hooked the keyboard interrupt and made your DOS machine beep when you hit 'j'- I think the idea was yours! :)

We also figured out that strange FSU number, 6442206 I think it was, that'd let us get into TFN quicker! Or m10.

Those TFN servers had some strange operating systems!! I remember Ultrix and SunOS and maybe IRIX? What else did we see? Oh I think fn5 was AIX?

There was wane-arc too and GCN... goddamn, in those days, we really wanted Unix shells on Internet-connected machines! Preferably with a way to dial in!! :)

And it was forever before Comcast gave us highspeed... and when TFN got PPP, the Democrat printed a huge page about it. But Trumpet Winsock was hard as fuck to get working right.

Ah, those were the days! :)

hi!

[(Anonymous)]

hey alex, this is jenn vangaasbeek. randomly found your livejournal while avoiding actual work. i miss my tfn. brings all my memories flooding back (not everything was so wonderful... but meeting you was!) hope you are doing well! keep the running up. los angeles is not a town for the pedestrian. i almost get killed on a daily basis by a motor vehicle. bye for now, mr. demento.

two cents.

(not a doctor. yet.)

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Jenn! :)

You had a proto-blog, years and years ago, back on TFN... have you kept in touch with anybody? For a long time, I would get the occasional late-night AIM from FrEnZy. And I found Justin on Facebook, but I don't think he remembered me by my real name. (Brett/Zip and I both live in Atlanta now, and we hang out fairly often :) )

Great to hear from you! What's going on these days?

I was going to make a joke about hearing that LA had all of its transit issues solved and had become a great place for pedestrians (http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:M4o03prjc4gJ:www.pps.org/info/newsletter/april2008/los_angeles_now_a_pedestrian_paradise+congestion+pricing+LA+success&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us), but it's apparently so far from true that the very server the article was on is gone now (http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/april2008/los_angeles_now_a_pedestrian_paradise)...